1297 Posts found for Source: strategy+business

This implementation problem is common in many fields. Studying the history of art, for example, does not teach you how to create great art: It just helps you appreciate why it’s great. Your studies may heighten your perception and stoke your enthusiasm to emulate the work of the masters, but you are still a long way from producing a great work. Similarly, the analysis of … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Execution, Strategy

Alignment has come to mean that behavior throughout an organization is directed toward the achievement of shared goals: Through clear objectives and a commonly shared vision, alignment keeps a business focused. In this view, companies with high levels of alignment are “built to last,” and the task of leadership is to get “the right fit” among such institutional systems as strategy, metrics, and rewards.

But alignment … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Not all products are created equal, so supplier integration schemes must be flexible.

Content: Article | Authors: Dorian Swerdlow, Kamalini Ramdas, Tim Laseter | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Operations

The constitutional scholar and national security expert defines a new era of market statehood.

Content: Thought Leader | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training

Creating value is just the beginning. To make money from innovation, you must drive your industry’s evolution – even before the industry exists.

Content: Article | Authors: Raman Muralidharan, Rhonda Germany | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Innovation, Strategy

A well-funded R&D program isn’t enough. Corporations must invest in business opportunities outside their four walls to accelerate innovation and growth.

Content: Article | Authors: David Kletter, Gary L. Neilson, Jennifer Hornery, Jill Albrinck | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Business Development, Strategy

Working in tandem, buyers and suppliers can find better ways to cut costs and increase innovation.

Content: Article | Authors: Bill Jackson, Conrad Winkler | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Operations

Britain had it all – brains, ideas, and inventions like radar and pencillin – but the U.S. brought the best to the market. The lesson is sobering: Native brilliance needs a national backup drive.

Content: Article | Author: Harold Evans | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: History, International

Heralded as the corporation’s savior, BPR was later condemned as a heartless, failed management fad. But perhaps evangelists like Michael Hammer needed to go even farther.

Content: Article | Author: Art Kleiner | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management

The industrial giant’s legendary learning center, Crotonville, has a new assignment: Teach every manager to be a strategist.

Content: Case Study | Author: Art Kleiner | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior | Company: General Electric (GE)

As the economics of R&D evolve, the Salk and other private research institutes become increasingly crucial to health care’s changing value chain.

Content: Case Study | Author: Lawrence M. Fisher | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Industry Specific | Industry: Biotechnology

This article, written back in 2000 when his book “Living on the Faultline” was being released, offers a good introduction to Moore’s management thinking and theories.

Content: Article | Author: Lawrence M. Fisher | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: People, Strategy

The E.U.’s growth to 25 countries is forcing multinational managers to recast how they “glocalize.”

Content: Article | Author: Pascal Cagni | Source: strategy+business | Subject: International – Europe

Great brands have fanatical followers who can insure the brand endures. Make sure your biggest fans don’t become your greatest enemies.

Content: Article | Authors: Allen G. Baum, Bradley T. Wolfsen, Horacio D. Rozanski | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Marketing / Sales

Many management fashions’ advocates look around for examples of corporate practice that seem to work, and then sum up the “lessons learned,” with all the carelessness and arrogance that comes with intuitive philosophizing – instead of asking, in some robust theoretical way, why these principles would work and others would not.

Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Management, Miscellaneous | Industry: Consulting

A corporation…is like a complex computer system, an intricate form of artificial life running on thousands of brains networked together. In that context, a reengineering plan (or any process design) is an algorithm. The computer is the company. The bits are people. The routines are business processes. The operating system is the organization’s culture. And you can program corporations as if they are giant multiprocessor … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Reengineering

There truly is a world of difference between organizations that view their challenge as better managing complexity and those that want to better manage simplicity. The design sensibilities – and their implications – are profoundly different.

The sociology of complexity is every bit as important as the technology of complexity. The problem, as everyone who’s tried to do it well knows, is that it’s very … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Are the habits of today’s knowledge workers unique in history? Actually, the Gen X style of working appears to be the oldest on earth.

Content: Article | Author: David Berreby | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Economics, Miscellaneous

Turning complex issues and opportunities into effectively simple – as opposed to simplistic or easy – constructs is truly the managerial art form of this new millennium. Instead of seeking “best” or “optimal” solutions to managerial problems, organizations and the people who run them have to become more creative about how they manage clarity and simplicity. Spending an extra two or three weeks on making … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Change Management, Communication

A large number of execution problems are really direction problems.

Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Execution, Strategy